It was amusing for a time in his rookie season, but can the Boring Sean Monahan fad go away now.
Well unlike the apparently controversial Miikka Kiprusoff phone calls, Boring Monahan and Sean Monahan sound like the exact same person. When Sean starts doing somersaults with elk over his head, we can have an 'interesting Sean Monahan' Twitter.
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Obviously he's going to say that JG is "at the beginning of the process". He's not going to go out and say he's a lock to make the big club, that would be ridiculous. He left it as open ended as I could possibly imagine.
100% no doubt about it, if he continues this level of play in training camp (which is entirely possible) or even plays half this dominant, then there is no freaking way you send him down. There is no point!
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Obviously he's going to say that JG is "at the beginning of the process". He's not going to go out and say he's a lock to make the big club, that would be ridiculous. He left it as open ended as I could possibly imagine.
100% no doubt about it, if he continues this level of play in training camp (which is entirely possible) or even plays half this dominant, then there is no freaking way you send him down. There is no point!
Obviously he's going to say that JG is "at the beginning of the process". He's not going to go out and say he's a lock to make the big club, that would be ridiculous. He left it as open ended as I could possibly imagine.
100% no doubt about it, if he continues this level of play in training camp (which is entirely possible) or even plays half this dominant, then there is no freaking way you send him down. There is no point!
Small ice surface and lots of bigger players will definitely be a factor.
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Small ice surface and lots of bigger players will definitely be a factor.
Did they shrink the players for the WC's? Maybe they did it for Gaudreau.
Seriously, Gaudreau doesn't avoid traffic on the ice...EVER, he actually loves the traffic areas because he loves to make people look stupid with his quick feet and stick...that is his game, you could make the ice surfice 100x40 and he would love it. and he's like David... the bigger the better.
A million videos of his work out there and people still don't get it.
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Did they shrink the players for the WC's? Maybe they did it for Gaudreau.
Seriously, Gaudreau doesn't avoid traffic on the ice...EVER, he actually loves the traffic areas because he loves to make people look stupid with his quick feet and stick...that is his game, you could make the ice surfice 100x40 and he would love it. and he's like David... the bigger the better.
A million videos of his work out there and people still don't get it.
Yeah I dont think the small surface (which he's spent his whole life playing on...) is going to affect a guy that can stick handle in a shoebox.
Did they shrink the players for the WC's? Maybe they did it for Gaudreau.
Seriously, Gaudreau doesn't avoid traffic on the ice...EVER, he actually loves the traffic areas because he loves to make people look stupid with his quick feet and stick...that is his game, you could make the ice surfice 100x40 and he would love it. and he's like David... the bigger the better.
A million videos of his work out there and people still don't get it.
I'd guess the players are smaller for international ice. There is no room for the big slow player which there are a lot of in Canadian pro hockey. American college hockey is also not as physical as the pros or the CHL, so there will be a change for Johnny. I think he can handle it but as said it's a process.
Did they shrink the players for the WC's? Maybe they did it for Gaudreau.
Seriously, Gaudreau doesn't avoid traffic on the ice...EVER, he actually loves the traffic areas because he loves to make people look stupid with his quick feet and stick...that is his game, you could make the ice surfice 100x40 and he would love it. and he's like David... the bigger the better.
A million videos of his work out there and people still don't get it.
Gaudreau has been compared to a lot of players but your comments remind me of another one.
I agree with you - and have said for a long time - that he doesn't shy away from traffic and in fact he handles it quite well.
In that regard, he reminds me a lot of a young Dale Hawerchuk. I doubt Hawerchuk weighed more than a buck sixty in his rookie year. But he would go up against bigger guys, kind of roll off of them, and then leave with the puck. Gaudreau does a similar thing.
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I'd guess the players are smaller for international ice. There is no room for the big slow player which there are a lot of in Canadian pro hockey. American college hockey is also not as physical as the pros or the CHL, so there will be a change for Johnny. I think he can handle it but as said it's a process.
Monahan 2 pts in 7 games, although received limited ice time initially
Gaudreau 10 pts in 7 games with arguably a weaker and less experienced team.
If Monahan's play warranted staying on the Flames roster out of camp, then unless there's a large, unforeseen regression on Johnny's part (which, let's face it, won't be likely) then regardless of how Treliving wants to put it, he's going to be and should be on the team. AHL time would just be postponing the inevitable. I fully expect him to play his way on the team, and then some.
Monahan 2 pts in 7 games, although received limited ice time initially
Gaudreau 10 pts in 7 games with arguably a weaker and less experienced team.
If Monahan's play warranted staying on the Flames roster out of camp, then unless there's a large, unforeseen regression on Johnny's part (which, let's face it, won't be likely) then regardless of how Treliving wants to put it, he's going to be and should be on the team. AHL time would just be postponing the inevitable. I fully expect him to play his way on the team, and then some.
If they want him passing to McDavid or Eichel in the future, then they may need to park him in the AHL for a season.
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